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The Digital Freedom Foundation is very happy to announce that registration of the twelfth edition of Software Freedom Day just opened. While the wiki has been ready for some times and a few teams started to create pages registration was another story. In fact our infrastructure needs updates and we still haven't found way to do that easily.

Now as far as Free Software is concerned while we see more projects adopting Free Software licenses we also feel end-users still struggle with their proprietary operating systems. At the same time both hardware and software seems a lot more integrated and in some fields it seems that you can just print something with your Free 3D printers, order some kind of Free Hardware controllers online, flash them, hack them and get a complete and finish product running (or flying, or...). We're involved here with people who had no special interest in Free Software or Hardware and discovered it through pursuing their hobbies, and they just love it!

On the sponsorship side we have unfortunately lost Canonical financially but they are still providing the mailing list infrastructure (snif snif.. they were our first sponsors). Google and Linode are still supporting us luckily and we are exploring new ventures (though nothing confirmed at this stage).

So as usual registration happens after you have created your event page on the wiki. We have an exaustive guide here for newcomers and for the others who need help, the SFD-Discuss mailing is probably the best place to get prompt support. As usual we will come back with more details things to do or worth mentioning to bring inspiration and motivation to the celebration on the sfd-discuss mailing list.

And to continue this busy week in announcements we have just opened Education Freedom Dayregistration, scheduled on March 21st, 2015. For its second edition EFD has been moved to March to facilitate its celebration in both the south of the planet and China (at least...) and we hope to cater to more events this year.

As usual for all our Freedom celebrations the process is similar, you get together and decide to organize an event, then create a page in our wiki and register your team. As the date approaches you get to put more information in your wiki page (or on your organization website which is linked from the wiki) such as the date and time, the location and what people can expect to see.

Education Freedom Day is really the opportunity to review all the available Free Educational Resources available, how they have improved since last year and what you should start planning to implement to deploy in the coming months. More importantly it is the celebration of what is available and letting people aware of it!

After an exciting weekend celebrating Hardware Freedom Day what could possibly be better than going back to the very inspiring video made to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Free Software Foundation? Indeed it's been made using Free Software only and goes through the work of the foundation for the past thirty years. It's actually nice to look at, positive and very well animated. We will definitely encourage all our software freedom day teams to use it during their events. But let us say no more and let you enjoy it if you've missed it so far:

For its third edition Hardware Freedom Day got closer to the holiday season and we hope everyone who took a first step into the world of Open Hardware will use this opportunity to come and meet passionate people who spend their time (or most of it) in hackerspaces or toy with with concept of Free Software and Open Hardware. As usual we have the same strong sponsors as every year such as Google, Canonical, the Free Software Foundation, Linode, all our supporters and the additional support of Lulzbot since 2014 who makes fully Free 3D printers!

So wait no longer and join us to celebrate Hardware Freedom Dayin your area!

For those of you not familiar with, or doubtful about Free and Open Source Software, this is the day to go and check at any event nearby what are the latest developments and if your problem could not simply be resolved by using Free and Open Source Software. It is also the day to understand better what Free and Open Source Software is about, and why it has been created. Because beyond solving computational problems Free and Open Source Software is here to put you back in control of your computer, and let you understand what your machine is really doing! So wait no more and head toward a celebration nearby!